>>977: Or someone fully aware of the situation, who wants this fever to
>>succeed. that would have been *my* internal reaction.
>
>Or, possibly, someone who's got such a fever going on that he's
>become utterly, irrationally paranoid and thinks someone is trying to
>poison everyone in the ship.

There was one flu season when I imagined that there were about a dozen of me from very close parallel universes (each tagged, for convenience, with a little floating number) overlapping, not quite in phase, as I tossed and turned in bed, and this was the source of my discomfort and delirium.

Given that experience, I can easily believe what you're suggesting.